What separates a vegetable from a fruit?

Question

Ok, so, I really don't know their difference, how are they classified?

Answer 1

A fruit's seeds can be used to grow more of its kind. Vegetable is used to describe any part of da plant thats grown to eat..this could be seeds leaves flowers and roots.

Answer 2

From Dr. Dictionary:

"A fruit is actually the sweet, ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant. A vegetable, in contrast, is an herbaceous plant cultivated for an edible part (seeds, roots, stems, leaves, bulbs, tubers, or nonsweet fruits). So, to be really nitpicky, a fruit could be a vegetable, but a vegetable could not be a fruit."

Answer 3

(Hey Im Looking For a Best Answer)

The answer depends on your relationship with the two items. If you’re stocking the produce department at a grocery store, a tomato is a vegetable. If you’re a plant scientist—a botanist—a tomato is a fruit. Cucumbers, pumpkins, avocados, and peppers are all fruits. Culturally, however, the grocer is going to call them vegetables.
A fruit is the ripe ovary or ovaries of a flower—the mature ovary of a seed-bearing plant. Let’s say you’ve got a tomato plant with those little yellow flowers all ready. A bee comes along and fertilizes the flower. The flower starts developing into a fruit with the seed inside. (There are four kinds of fruits, which explains fruits such as pineapple and blueberries, but let's not get into that.) And, hey, guess what? Nuts are fruits. True nuts that is, chestnut and filberts come to mind.
Vegetables, however, are the roots (eg, carrot), tubers (eg, potato), leaves (eg spinach), stems (eg, celery), and other bits of plants that you might eat. For a botanist, a vegetable is sort of like the umbrella word for all the edible parts of a plant. Just to keep life interesting, mushrooms aren’t plants at all, they are a kind of fungus.
Let’s just keep with the cultural distinctions!

A fruit is a plant ovary/womb. The fruit of a plant contain the seeds of a plant. Vegetables are essentially everything else: seeds (peas and beans), stems (asparagus), leaves (lettuce and, spinach), flowers (broccoli and cauliflower), and roots (carrots and potatoes). Nuts are tree seeds. Peanuts are a variety of beans. Peas and beans are vegetables. Peas in the pod are fruit. String beans, the green bean pod and the beans inside, are fruit. Tomatoes, cucumbers, watermelon, and squash are fruit. Some fruit, however, does not contain real seeds. Few varieties of bananas contain seeds. Strawberries have the seeds on the outside.

hope this helps

Answer 4

Fruit has a visible seed or pit. Of course this means that squash, cucumbers, and tomatoes are fruit....how weird! I think it is still acceptable to call them vegetables...you certainly don't find them in fruit salad.

Vegetables also have seeds, but they are not visible in the part that we eat. Lettuce, celery, cabbage, etc.

Answer 5

The rule of thumb is the location of the seeds... seeds inside = fruit seeds outside = vegetable....

The actual definitions are (of course) much more involved and somewhat debatable

Answer 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetables
I personally watch what kids don't eat and classify it as a vegetable. I've therefore determined ice cream and oreo cookies to be fruit. Everything else must be a vegetable, except french fries. Ketchup, I believe is a separate vegetable(as determined by the United States Supreme court)and therefore constitutes two servings of veggies when eaten with french fries.

Answer 7

Biologically:
Fruits are made from the enlarged ovary of the pistil of a flower. Fruits contain the seeds.

Vegetables are nonreproductive parts of a plant such as leaves, stems, or roots.

Fruits: green beans, pea pods, green peppers, apples, ...
Vegetables: celery, beets, potatoes, lettuce, ...

Answer 8

vegetable is anything that doesn't involve in making new plant. fruit is anything that bears a seed or is a seed.

Answer 9

Seeds.

That's what I'd heard anyway. I don't know how true it is, but supposedly, fruit has seeds, vegetables do not.

That's why tomatoes are actually fruits.

Answer 10

vegetables have root which grows under ground--fruit grows on trees --Bush's and shrubs----,then there is a diff rent taste of cause. both are very good for you.